The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.

The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence. And Zen. suggests that we may be driving toward one or the other on a cosmic scale. Driving toward them because, one way or the other, as madmen or innocents, we are already there. It might be good to open our eyes and see.

A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.

You are made in the image of what you desire.

We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.

For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.

O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.